With Gemini Films (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. O Tédio (1998)
M/16 | 122 min | Romance, Drama
Martin is a middle-aged philosophy teacher in the midst of a mid-life crisis. Lacking direction or purpose in his life, he initiates an affair with Cécilia, a young artist's model who might... See full summary »
Director: Cédric Kahn | Stars: Charles Berling, Sophie Guillemin, Arielle Dombasle, Robert Kramer
Votes: 1,834 | Gross: $0.04M
2. Minha Mãe (2004)
M/18 | 110 min | Drama, Romance
When his father dies, a young man is introduced by his attractive, amoral mother to a world of hedonism and depravity.
Director: Christophe Honoré | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrel, Emma de Caunes, Joana Preiss
Votes: 5,827 | Gross: $0.07M
3. Wanda (1970)
M/16 | 102 min | Crime, Drama
Wanda, a lonely housewife, drifts through mining country until she meets a petty thief who takes her in.
Director: Barbara Loden | Stars: Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins, Dorothy Shupenes, Peter Shupenes
Votes: 2,579 | Gross: $0.05M
4. L.I.E. - Sem Saída (2001)
M/12 | 97 min | Crime, Drama
A 15-year-old Long Island boy loses everything and everyone he knows, soon becoming involved in a relationship with a much older man.
Director: Michael Cuesta | Stars: Brian Cox, Paul Dano, Bruce Altman, Billy Kay
Votes: 9,245 | Gross: $1.14M
5. O Tempo Reencontrado (1999)
M/12 | 169 min | Drama, Romance, War
A lush, elegant epic taking us on a time-swirling trip down the infinitely complex labyrinth that is Marcel Proust's memory lane.
Director: Raoul Ruiz | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, Vincent Perez, John Malkovich
Votes: 2,096 | Gross: $0.46M
6. A Fidelidade (2000)
M/16 | 105 min | Drama
A talented photographer who lands a lucrative job in Paris with a scandal-mongering tabloid and becomes romantically involved with an eccentric children's book publisher while resisting the sexual advances of another photographer.
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Pascal Greggory, Guillaume Canet, Michel Subor
Votes: 1,603
7. Klimt (2006)
M/12 | 131 min | Biography, Drama
A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Director: Raoul Ruiz | Stars: John Malkovich, Veronica Ferres, Stephen Dillane, Saffron Burrows
Votes: 2,683
8. Em Paris (2006)
M/12 | 92 min | Drama, Romance
Anna has just left Paul who, annihilated by the separation, moves back with his father in Paris. His younger brother Jonathan, a casual student, still lives in his father's apartment and ... See full summary »
Director: Christophe Honoré | Stars: Romain Duris, Louis Garrel, Alice Butaud, Joana Preiss
Votes: 3,762 | Gross: $0.06M
9. A Cativa (2000)
111 min | Drama, Music, Romance
An adaptation of Proust's "La Prisoniere" (book five of "Remembrance of Things Past"). Set in Paris, France, it is a serious tale of a tragic and dysfunctional love.
Director: Chantal Akerman | Stars: Stanislas Merhar, Sylvie Testud, Olivia Bonamy, Liliane Rovère
Votes: 1,291
10. Casa de Lava (1994)
M/12 | 110 min | Drama
The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama.
Director: Pedro Costa | Stars: Inês de Medeiros, Isaach De Bankolé, Edith Scob, Pedro Hestnes
Votes: 676
11. O Mar (2000)
M/16 | 107 min | Drama, War
Two young men and a woman who shared the same traumatic childhood experience during the Spanish Civil War are reunited years later at a hospital for tuberculosis treatment.
Director: Agustí Villaronga | Stars: Roger Casamajor, Bruno Bergonzini, Antònia Torrens, Hernán González
Votes: 1,367
12. Le loup de la côte Ouest (2002)
132 min | Adult, Crime, Drama
A detective thriller about a private eye, who was hired by one of the gangsters.
Director: Hugo Santiago | Stars: James Faulkner, Anna Mouglalis, Gérard Watkins, Valérie Dréville
Votes: 43
13. Ossos (1997)
M/16 | 94 min | Drama
A suicidal young woman gives her newborn child up to his deadbeat father in the Fontainhas slums of Lisbon.
Director: Pedro Costa | Stars: Vanda Duarte, Nuno Vaz, Mariya Lipkina, Isabel Ruth
Votes: 1,268
14. Alguns Dias em Setembro (2006)
M/12 | 116 min | Drama, Thriller
On September 1st, 2001 a spy receives information that something terrible will happen soon.
Director: Santiago Amigorena | Stars: Juliette Binoche, John Turturro, Sara Forestier, Tom Riley
Votes: 1,673
15. Pai e Filho (2003)
97 min | Drama
A father and his son live together in a roof-top apartment. They have lived alone for years in their own private world, full of memories and daily rites. Sometimes they seem like brothers. ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Andrei Shchetinin, Aleksei Neymyshev, Aleksandr Razbash, Fyodor Lavrov
Votes: 2,267 | Gross: $0.04M
16. Transe (2006)
M/16 | 126 min | Drama
Sonia, a girl from St Petersburg, decides to seek a better life in western Europe. She first gets a job at a car dealer in Germany. But she is suddenly kidnapped and sold into sexual ... See full summary »
Director: Teresa Villaverde | Stars: Ana Moreira, Viktor Rakov, Robinson Stévenin, Iaia Forte
Votes: 457
17. Vale Abraão (1993)
M/12 | 187 min | Drama
Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. Young marries Dr. Carlo Paiva, who she is not attracted to, but is her father's friend. They move to ... See full summary »
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Leonor Silveira, Cécile Sanz de Alba, Luís Miguel Cintra, Ruy de Carvalho
Votes: 1,136
18. Le dernier jour (2004)
104 min | Drama, Romance
A young artist's return home is offset by his unrequited love for a childhood male friend.
Director: Rodolphe Marconi | Stars: Nicole Garcia, Gaspard Ulliel, Mélanie Laurent, Bruno Todeschini
Votes: 1,005
19. No Quarto da Vanda (2000)
M/18 | 170 min | Drama
The film follows the daily life of Vanda Duarte, a heroin addict in Lisbon, and the community she lives in.
Director: Pedro Costa | Stars: Vanda Duarte, Lena Duarte, Zita Duarte, Manuel Gomes Miranda
Votes: 1,178
20. A Comédia de Deus (1995)
M/16 | 170 min | Comedy, Drama
João de Deus is the manager of an ice-cream shop owned by an ex-prostitute, Paraíso dos Gelados (Ice-Cream Paradise). Through a unmoved desire of perfection, he seeks, through cleansing and... See full summary »
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: Cláudia Teixeira, João César Monteiro, Manuela de Freitas, Raquel Ascensão
Votes: 1,076
21. 'Non', ou A Vã Glória de Mandar (1990)
M/12 | 110 min | Drama, History, War
Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973. He easily ... See full summary »
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Diogo Dória, Miguel Guilherme, Luís Lucas
Votes: 783
22. Genealogias de um Crime (1997)
M/16 | 114 min | Crime, Drama
At her son's funeral, Solange, a lawyer famous for losing hopeless cases, agrees to defend René, her son's age, accused of murdering his wealthy aunt, Jeanne, who's part of the ... See full summary »
Director: Raoul Ruiz | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Melvil Poupaud, Andrzej Seweryn
Votes: 748 | Gross: $0.08M
23. Vou Para Casa (2001)
M/12 | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. ... See full summary »
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich, Antoine Chappey
Votes: 1,603
24. A Casa (1997)
M/12 | 120 min | Drama
A ramshackle mansion in the woods: individuals of all type, age and condition eat, roam or rest inside. But always in strict silence.
Director: Sharunas Bartas | Stars: Francisco Nascimento, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Alex Descas, Leos Carax
Votes: 446
25. Alice (I) (2005)
M/16 | 102 min | Drama
In the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods.
Director: Marco Martins | Stars: Nuno Lopes, Beatriz Batarda, Miguel Guilherme, Ana Bustorff
Votes: 1,970
26. Os Tempos que Mudam (2004)
94 min | Drama, Romance
Traveling from France to Tangiers, a man looks to reunite with his former love, though their romance ended some 30 years earlier.
Director: André Téchiné | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Gilbert Melki, Malik Zidi
Votes: 1,544 | Gross: $0.54M
27. Três Vidas E Uma Só Morte (1996)
M/12 | 123 min | Comedy, Crime
Take a walk into the dreamlike world of filmmaker Raul Ruiz as he takes us to Paris for a twisting ride. Four strangely symmetrical stories unfold involving love, lust, crime, and time.
Director: Raoul Ruiz | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Galiena, Marisa Paredes, Melvil Poupaud
Votes: 1,096
28. Um Filme Falado (2003)
M/12 | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Lisbon, Marseilles, Naples, Athens, Istanbul, Cairo, Aden, and Bombay. Along with a university teacher and her little daughter, we embark on a long journey, experiencing different cultures and civilizations.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Leonor Silveira, Filipa de Almeida, John Malkovich, Catherine Deneuve
Votes: 1,836 | Gross: $0.01M
29. O Convento (1995)
M/12 | 91 min | Drama, Mystery
The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the documents needed to prove his theory: ... See full summary »
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich, Luís Miguel Cintra, Leonor Silveira
Votes: 889 | Gross: $0.05M
30. Viagem ao Princípio do Mundo (1997)
M/12 | 95 min | Biography, Drama
Manoel is aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France and in... See full summary »
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Yves Gautier, Leonor Silveira, Diogo Dória
Votes: 641
31. Ceci est mon corps (2001)
87 min | Drama
Young student Antoine jumps off studies to follow an acting career, and is offered a main role after a boy who killed himself after a fling with the director.
Director: Rodolphe Marconi | Stars: Louis Garrel, Jane Birkin, Elisabeth Depardieu, Mélanie Laurent
Votes: 136
32. Coming Apart (1969)
110 min | Drama
Psychiatrist installs a concealed movie camera in his apartment to record the screwed-up lives of the women who visit him.
Director: Milton Moses Ginsberg | Stars: Rip Torn, Sally Kirkland, Robert Blankshine, Darlene Cotton
Votes: 369
33. Vai e Vem (2003)
M/16 | 175 min | Comedy, Drama
João Vuvu, lives alone in a house that requires regeneration but due to being alone he is unable to do the work. On his son's release from prison and João's ensuing deception triggers a series of somber events.
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: João César Monteiro, Rita Pereira Marques, Joaquina Chicau, Manuela de Freitas
Votes: 588
34. L'enfant de l'hiver (1989)
84 min | Drama
A man leaves his pregnant wife because he does not want to be a father, then he begins a relationship with another woman who loves someone else.
Director: Olivier Assayas | Stars: Clotilde de Bayser, Michel Feller, Marie Matheron, Jean-Philippe Écoffey
Votes: 139
35. Recordações da Casa Amarela (1989)
M/16 | 122 min | Comedy, Drama
Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor idiot, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: João César Monteiro, Manuela de Freitas, Ruy Furtado, Teresa Calado
Votes: 1,070
36. Os Canibais (1988)
M/12 | 90 min | Musical, Drama, Fantasy
A drama following stories of characters from the Portuguese High Society.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Leonor Silveira, Diogo Dória, Oliveira Lopes
Votes: 410
37. É Mais Fácil Um Camelo... (2003)
110 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
As a little girl, Federica fantasized about having beautiful long hair that would grow back as soon as she cut it, about never-ending cones of cotton candy and about countless adventures ... See full summary »
Director: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Chiara Mastroianni, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Denis Podalydès
Votes: 801 | Gross: $0.02M
38. Duas (2002)
121 min | Drama
A young woman named Magdalena retrieves a postcard that had been cast into the wind by her biological mother (Bulle Ogier) from a seaside town in Portugal and discovers that she has a twin sister named Maria.
Director: Werner Schroeter | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Bulle Ogier, Manuel Blanc, Arielle Dombasle
Votes: 211
39. A Divina Comédia (1991)
M/12 | 140 min | Drama
Patients in a mental institution see themselves as Adam and Eve, Sonia and Raskolnikov, a Philosopher and a Prophet, Alyosha and Ivan Karamazov, Jesus, Lazarus, Martha, Mary and St Teresa of Avila.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Maria de Medeiros, Miguel Guilherme, Luís Miguel Cintra, Mário Viegas
Votes: 405
40. As Almas Fortes (2001)
120 min | Drama, Romance
At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Sixty years before, Thérèse was barely 20 years old when she eloped with her boyfriend, Firmin, a ... See full summary »
Director: Raoul Ruiz | Stars: Laetitia Casta, Frédéric Diefenthal, Arielle Dombasle, John Malkovich
Votes: 407
41. As Bodas de Deus (1999)
M/16 | 150 min | Comedy
After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the dice.
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: Rita Durão, João César Monteiro, Joana Azevedo, José Airosa
Votes: 600
42. Aquele Dia (2003)
M/16 | 105 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A father (Michel Piccoli) is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage (Elsa Zylberstein) killed by allowing a murderous psychopath (Bernard Giraudeau) to be ... See full summary »
Director: Raoul Ruiz | Stars: Bernard Giraudeau, Elsa Zylberstein, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jean-François Balmer
Votes: 687
43. Peixe-Lua (2000)
M/16 | 124 min | Drama
Director: José Álvaro Morais | Stars: Beatriz Batarda, Marcello Urgeghe, Ricardo Aibéo, Luís Miguel Cintra
Votes: 52
44. A Nova Eva (1999)
M/18 | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Camille is having the time of her life, enjoying all that Pari's decadent nightlife has to offer a young single woman. She parties all night with sexual abandon, then stumbles home at dawn,... See full summary »
Director: Catherine Corsini | Stars: Karin Viard, Pierre-Loup Rajot, Catherine Frot, Sergi López
Votes: 509
45. Noite Escura (2004)
M/16 | 94 min | Drama, Crime
"Noite Escura" is a disturbing movie about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.
Director: João Canijo | Stars: Fernando Luís, Rita Blanco, Beatriz Batarda, Cleia Almeida
Votes: 509
46. A Carta (1999)
M/12 | 107 min | Drama
A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro ... See full summary »
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Chiara Mastroianni, Pedro Abrunhosa, Antoine Chappey, Leonor Silveira
Votes: 627
47. Amanhã Mudamos de Casa (2004)
110 min | Comedy
Charlotte is single. She tries to write erotic books to survive without her mind being in the least absorbed by eroticism or desire.
Director: Chantal Akerman | Stars: Sylvie Testud, Aurore Clément, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Natacha Régnier
Votes: 388
48. A Ausência (1992)
M/12 | 112 min | Drama
Four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.
Director: Peter Handke | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Jeanne Moreau, Alex Descas, Eustaquio Barjau
Votes: 49
49. No Sex Last Night (1996)
76 min | Documentary, Biography, Romance
French Artist Sophie Calle and American Photographer Greg Shephard's autobiographical account of their road trip across America. Both hide behind their cameras as they make the mythical ... See full summary »
Directors: Sophie Calle, Greg Shephard | Stars: Sophie Calle, Greg Shephard
Votes: 108
50. Inquietude (1998)
M/12 | 110 min | Drama
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, José Pinto, Isabel Ruth, Leonor Silveira
Votes: 306